HUNTER: CBSA officials blame Trudeau, Refugee Council for situation

HUNTER: CBSA  officials blame Trudeau,  Refugee Council for situation.
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"The last few years have been very  frustrating. 'The Liberals are  in retreat, but the damage  is done.'"
Canada Border Services Agency  officer Constance Karpeil examines a  package.
Criminals, fraudsters, potential terrorists, extremists and other  unsavory characters have  flooded Canadian shores in a tsunami of  madness over the past  decade.
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Earlier this week, I  criticized the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for  a situation that has become nothing short of a full-blown  crisis. But CBSA frontline workers were quick to respond.  "Don't blame  us," a number of them wrote  to me.
Blame Justin Trudeau's Liberal government and  the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB)  full of "radical  left-wing ideologues."  Officials say they  are essentially handcuffed  and unable to make decisions that keep Canadians  safe.
"Do you want to know why and how all  this trash  is getting into the country?" Don't blame  us officers.  "Blame this open  borders government  for tying our hands  by giving us the choice of who to stop and why,"  wrote one CBSA  employee.
"The fault lies in the fact that all  these criminals are in the country  with false asylum  claims." After they say the magic word  "refugees," they are released.
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"Blame the IRB  and ultimately blame the spineless  management of the CBSA  who are more  concerned with what the  Star (Toronto) and  the Refugee Office will say if they  arrest these  "poor fringes."
Another border guard said  the officers  are doing their  job. They  deny entry to criminals and other  suspects whose stories don't  match up.
"But they say  'refugees' and  that's a get-out-of-jail-free card,"  said the  unidentified guard. "We detain these individuals and the  liberal members  of the CISR release them  all within 48  hours and then  do the first detention  review."
Higher up the food chain, the  agency is pressuring officers to "release everyone." The  outlook looks  bleaker when  the CBSA will  no longer be  able to detain foreign criminals in provincial jails after September  2025.
The official said frontline workers are  "forced to consider  all alternatives to detention. If (Osama) bin Laden  were arrested and  had family in Canada, he would be released on  parole for his  family."
"To see the CBSA as the friend you don't want is unfair to all of us frontline officers who work hard every day  to stop and  arrest people, but once they leave the port of  entry, they're released into the  street," he said, adding  that "an asylum seeker charged with  a criminal  offense will be released two to three years  earlier."
"From automatic visa  approval to  the release of everyone, it's all thanks to  the Liberals." Frontline  officers work hard, but unlike criminals, our hands are tied,  while criminals are not and are free to  roam."
Another officer said the trio of Chileans recently  arrested for a  string of  robberies in Ontario  entered the country  using someone else's passport. The machines used by  the CBSA  today let them  in.
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"That's why we have a million Indian students  - 90% of  them would never  have been approved if they were  screened by a visa  officer."
Even when officers suspected that a  visitor visa  holder had no intention of leaving,  rejection was not an  option.
"If they  didn't admit to criminal  acts, they  weren't affected, everyone was  included." "We were accepting 100  asylum seekers a day and 90%  of them came on student visas with  no intention  of studying and many  didn't speak a word of  English," the officer  said. "The last few years have been very  frustrating. The Liberals are  on the back foot, but the damage has been done.  It will take years for Canada to catch and  deport these  people."
In a statement to the Toronto Sun,  the CBSA said: "Border security and integrity is a shared mandate between the CBSA and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Canada. The CBSA is responsible for law  enforcement at designated ports of entry  into Canada and the RCMP is responsible for enforcing Canadian  law between ports of  entry."
"When individuals transiting Canada between ports of entry are intercepted by the RCMP or local police, they are  sent to a designated port of entry for  screening. Once at the port of entry, if the  person requests asylum, the CBSA will determine whether or not the  request is  admissible under the  ETPS, the Immigration and  Refugee Protection Act, and the Immigration and Refugee Protection  Act. »
bhunter@postmedia.com

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